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The Mission of the Nebraska State Council for the Social Studies

Our organization will assume a leadership role in education in Nebraska, create a collaborative space for all Social Studies organizations in the state to operate, and to serve the interest of members of the National Council for the Social Studies and this state's affiliation.


The NSCSS annual conference scheduled for
​Thursday and Friday, June 2-3, 2022 has been canceled. 
Please monitor this site for future conference opportunities!
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This FREE workshop which offers a $75 stipend is available to a limited number of participants who register for the NSCSS conference. Select to attend when you register!
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*****Many professional development/travel opportunities are being offered with application deadlines in February/March.  Go to the Teacher Resources menu and use the Professional Development/Travel tab to view them.*****

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Visit our 2021 virtual conference at any time during this school year:
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Our 2021 virtual conference is FREE and open to all who are interested. No password is necessary.  Click the link below and view presentations.  Sessions will run from 10-30 minutes.  They will be available throughout the 2021-22 school year if you wish to revisit them.                
                              https://sites.google.com/view/nebraskasocialstudiescouncil/home                         

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The Nebraska Department of Education has created two optional educational resources to help with the implementation of the 2019 Nebraska State Social Studies Standards.  The first optional resource is the Social Studies Standards Instructional Tool (SIT) which is a spreadsheet containing open educational resources that accompany each K-12 state social studies standard and its indicators. The second optional resource is instructional frameworks that take the social studies standards and put them into the structure of a possible course.  Frameworks have been created for 4th Grade Social Studies,  5th Grade US History, 6th Grade Social Studies (Social Studies I), 7th Grade Social Studies-with three possible approaches (Social Studies II), 8th Grade US History, High School Government, High School Economics, High School Geography-with two possible approaches, High School US History, and High School World History.   The SIT, Frameworks and three videos explaining them (one elementary, one middle school and one high school) will be available on the NDE Social Studies website soon!

It is the goal of the resources to provide some assistance to social studies teachers as they work hard to teach in these uncertain times.
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*****Go to the Annual Conference (Awards) page and the Archives to see some of Nebraska's outstanding social studies educators!*****
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Who represents you on the Nebraska State Board of Education?
Contact your Board member with comments and concerns.
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                                            Education Committee of the Nebraska  Legislature - 
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Sen. Lynne Walz, Chairperson
District 15
Room 1107
P.O. Box 94604
Lincoln, NE 68509
(402) 471-2625
Email:
 lwalz@leg.ne.gov
Committee Members​​
  • Sen. Jen Day                                                           Email: jday@leg.ne.gov
  • Sen. Lou Ann Linehan                                          Email: llinehan@leg.ne.gov
  • Sen. Terrell McKinney                                          Email: tmckinney@leg.ne.gov
  • Sen. Adam Morfeld                                                Email: amorfeld@leg.ne.gov
  • Sen. Dave Murman                                                Email: dmurman@leg.ne.gov
  • Sen. Patty Pansing Brooks                                    Email: ppansingbrooks@leg.ne.gov
  • Sen. Rita Sanders                                                   Email: rsanders@leg.ne.gov​
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Three times each week the National Council for the Social Studies sends out a brief update about what is happening in Social Studies classrooms around the country. Click the link below for a recent NCSS SmartBrief. To search the archives go to: 

NCSS SmartBrief

Interested in Getting Published?
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NSCSS is posting lesson plans, book reviews
significant to social studies, and editorials from our members. If you are interested in seeing your work reflected on our website please send your contributions to nebraskasocialstudiescouncil@gmail.com
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If you notice any problems with the functions of this NSCSS site, resources that are no longer available, bad links, etc. please contact us at nebraskasocialstudiescouncil@gmail.com
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